'noncommittal' is an acceptable word in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is unwilling to make a definite commitment about something. For example, "The minister was very noncommittal when asked about the national budget."
If they aren't met with uniform apathy – and it's hard to respond to Martin Freeman's Labour video with anything other than a fixed grin and noncommittal thumbs up – celebrity endorsements can actively hurt the party they're meant to help.
He was sensibly noncommittal, saying only: "Maybe – I'm not putting too much pressure on myself".
That's quite noncommittal (1).
So Mrs Kumaratunga may answer with encouraging but noncommittal noises while she tries to decide whether he really means to hang up his gun and sit at the table.
I don't recall exactly how it was phrased - if it was, "You should" or "You can" or just mentioning it as a possibility… I do remember the reporter (sic) giving a noncommittal answer"." Having spoken to both the producer and the reporter again, both remain adamant that they cannot recall Mr Ornstein raising the possibility of speaking to these Israeli players.
"A threat would be counter-productive," he frowns intimidatingly.The noncommittal welcome given by most regional leaders so far to Mr Putin's plans has worked well in the past.
In the Times's own attempt to characterise the IPCC dispute, Elisabeth Rosenthal fell back on a lazy, noncommittal "controversy rages" approach, citing central figures of the climate-sceptic movement people who are not, themselves, climate scientists—as if they were neutral commentators.
Johnson, however, remained largely noncommittal.
Gower provides a contrast to Chaucer in that the sober and earnest moral intent behind Gower's writing is always clear, whereas Chaucer can be noncommittal and evasive.
Ultimately, Carneades' noncommittal attitude was rooted in his denial that there exists any certain knowledge, either of the senses or of the intellect.
Yet Metternich only partly succeeded in his plans: the German imperial project came to nothing because Francis steadfastly refused to support it; the Italian confederation did not materialize; and the German confederation, when it at last did come into being in June 1815, was based only on a brief and noncommittal federal act derived from a Bavarian compromise proposal.
